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Women in tech are mobilizing to improve access to abortion providers

Rina Raphael

November 01, 2018 |

FastCompany |

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Response Location: United States, Davis, California

A collaboration between pro-choice activists and tech workers is—in the face of increasing restrictive policy—creating access to services and information. Events like the Abortion Access Hackathon provide a means for collective action to create websites detailing the location of clinics and each state’s law regarding abortion.

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Alapa: Why family planning is becoming a household name in Oyo State

Chibuike Alagboso

October 30, 2018 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Oyo, Oyo State

The Nigerian state of Oyo has a modern Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (mCPR) of 24%, which is the highest in the country compared to the national average of 10.8%. This can be attributed to family planning services brought to citizens through a fruitful partnership between government efforts and outside partners like nonprofit Marie Stopes International Organization of Nigeria (MSION). Since 2013 MSION has helped bring an influx of new family planning information and media outreach, improve clinic facilities and services, offer counseling for pre- and postnatal care, and much more.

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Mothers lead children HIV transmission fight in Kisii and Homa Bay

Angela Oketch

October 21, 2018 |

Business Daily |

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Response Location: Kenya

A mentorship program in Kenya has proven effective at slashing rates of HIV transmission to infants and reducing stigma surrounding the illness. Mentor mothers offer support and education to HIV-positive pregnant women to ensure they stay on anti-retro viral drugs to avoid passing the virus to their unborn children and they work with them through the first 18 months of a child's life. Similar programs in other African countries have reached an estimated 1.4 million HIV-positive women.

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With genome sequencing, some sick infants are getting a shot at healthy lives

Meghana Keshavan

October 19, 2018 |

STAT |

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Response Location: United States

Project Baby Bear is a grant-funded pilot program that uses genome sequencing to to diagnose sick infants. The doctors hope to save lives and save the system money on unnecessary treatments. Since very few sick infants show symptoms that correlate to their genetic diagnosis, these tests are instrumental in positive health outcomes.

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Women in the U.S. Can Now Get Safe Abortions by Mail

Olga Khazan

October 18, 2018 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States

Aid Access is the first company to send abortion pills to women who cannot access health services in the United States. The company conducts online appointments before sending the drugs. Women on the Web has done this work internationally for years, but the service was not available in the United States.

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Driven by traditional leaders, a “magic” ointment is preventing deaths in newborns

Bashar Abubakar

October 16, 2018 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Sokoto, Sokoto State

Chlorhexidine gel has been successfully used to ensure healthy births and avoid newborn babies from having often fatal infections around their umbilical cord. The use of this gel—as well as the end of potentially harmful practices—was achieved through education during religious sermons, community health workers engaging with pregnant women, and more culturally sensitive delivery processes.

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Breaking down the stigma around miscarriage and stillbirth

Julia Migné

October 15, 2018 |

Inkline |

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Response Location: England

People are working to bring the trauma of stillbirth into the mainstream so they can heal. From full length feature movies to legislation that includes stillbirth in the qualifications for bereavement leave, people are working to legitimize the grief of losing unborn children.

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The 'Cafes' Trying to Close the Breastfeeding Gap

Rebecca Ballan

October 12, 2018 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

In Brooklyn, along with 2 other locations in New York, new mothers are receiving free lactation consultations, helping them to learn how to breastfeed their babies - but also building a sense of community for these mothers. While the ultimate goal of the so-called Baby Cafes is to lessen the barriers to breastfeeding, the community and support they provide are also essential to encouraging the practice.

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How to grapple with soaring world population? An answer from down south

Nicola Davis

October 10, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Botswana

Botswana stands out for its rapidly falling fertility rate; a complex set of factors, including increased access to comprehensive education and contraception, is driving the falling rate. The country's family planning programs are far-reaching, providing services in even rural areas of Botswana, and giving women more control of their reproductive health and choices.

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Can medical outreaches for maternal health bridge the access gap in the Federal Capital Territory?

Chibuike Alagboso

October 09, 2018 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Gwagwalada, Federal Capital Territory

Medical professionals travel to remote areas of Nigeria with little access to family planning or maternal health care to hand out resources such as condoms or birth control and to train villages' Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) on updated safe birth practices. The team, called the PeachAid Medical Initiative, has reached over 30,000 women and 400 TBAs through medical outreach to rural communities since 2015. The work at large is meant to address the high maternal death rate in Nigeria.

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